Princeton Students in Quantum

Jeremiah Coleman

President | Graduate

Jeremiah is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is working in the Houck Lab on fabricating novel junctions such as quantum phase slip wires for new protected superconducting qubits to be used in quantum error correction. He has experience designing benchmarking protocols for quantum computers with the QED-C and quantum circuit design software at Google Quantum AI. He received his undergraduate degrees at Stanford and was the former President of the Stanford Quantum Computing Association.

Pranav Mathur

President | Undergraduate

Pranav Mathur is a junior in the ECE department and hails from Northern Virginia. He is interested in researching how to build large-scale quantum computing systems and is currently doing research in Prof. Jeff Thompson’s lab. Outside of quantum computing and PSQ, Pranav enjoys dancing with Naacho South Asian Dance Company, solving the New York Times Crossword, and spending time outdoors biking or running.

Vincent Cai

Vice President | Undergraduate

Vincent is a junior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is responsible for overseeing and developing all software for PSQ and affiliated events, including for QuBlitz.

Vivian Huang

Industry and Events Officer | Undergraduate

Hi! I’m Vivian, a sophomore pursuing a major in physics and minor in computer science. I love learning cool things about the universe and exploring new interests. In my free time I also enjoy going to coffee shops, rock climbing, and learning new languages.

Peter Wu

Treasurer | Undergraduate

Hi! My name is Peter, the PSQ Treasurer! Academically, I am interested in quantum simulations using cold atoms and molecules. In my free time, I like to sing and procrastinate.

Pem Kazemikhah

Treasurer | Graduate

Payman (Pem) is a second year PhD student and a member in the Mikhailova Lab (ETOILES) working on generating Quantum Entanglement in high frequency ranges with applications in quantum sensing/metrology, imaging/microscopy and spectroscopy. He is interested in attosecond science, quantum optics, high harmonic generation (HHG) and the intersection of these fields. Payman received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Tehran working on quantum information and their enabling technologies.

Daohong Xu

Trip Officer | Graduate

Daohong is a second-year graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is working with Prof. Jeff Thompson and Prof. Sarang Gopalakrishnan on theoretical quantum information, with a focus on quantum error correction. He earned his undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Chicago, where he conducted research in experimental quantum sensing and theoretical quantum computing. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, classical music, and soccer.

Sanjana Venkatesh

Trip Officer | Undergraduate

Sanjana Venkatesh is a junior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with interests in bioelectronics and biological control systems. As a member of the Berry Lab (Department of Neuroscience), she is modeling mechanisms of computation within individual neurons. In her free time, Sanjana loves to run, read, and discover new foods.

Thomas Verrill

Hackathon Officer and President Emeritus | Graduate

Thomas Verrill is an ECE M. Eng. student working on creating and testing low frequency superconducting qubits in the Houck Lab. Outside of schoolwork, he plays guitar and composes jazz and electronic music.

Adi Biswas

Hackathon Officer | Undergraduate

Adi is a prospective physics major, planning to minor in humanistic studies, computational biology, and mathematics. He is currently working on research with invasive species propagation through networks of farms and exploring how the mathematical machinery developed for physics can be used to study biological systems. With his free time, he reads science fiction, plays the violin, and does taekwondo.

Shail Patel

Events Officer | Undergraduate

Shail is a junior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He previously conducted research in Gmachl’s lab on Quantum Cascade Lasers. Now, he is starting to explore his interest in superconducting qubits.

Sasha Cocquyt

Events Officer | Undergraduate

Sasha is a sophomore in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Her interest in quantum computing began in high school, and since then she’s been motivated to get others involved in the field. In her free time, she enjoys making art, going on long bike rides, and perfecting her brownie recipe.

Sonia Cherian

Events Officer | Undergraduate

Dharmil Bhavsar

Publicity Officer | Undergraduate

Hello, I’m Dharmil, a Molecular Biology major in the Class of 2026! I’m looking forward to learning more about and raising awareness of the fundamentals of quantum science and its growing role in the future of technology and research.

Rin Kuroda

Treasurer | Undergraduate

Rin Kuroda is a senior in the Physics Department interested in AMO physics, quantum information, snowboarding, and photography.

Elizabeth Medina

Social and Outreach Officer | Undergraduate

Elizabeth is a senior in the ECE department on the Quantum Information and Applied Physics track. She’s eager to introduce other students to the weird, yet brilliant, world of quantum and is looking forward to getting to know the rest of the club members. These days, you can find her working on her thesis in Princeton’s Houck Lab. In her free time, she enjoys playing the ukulele and making digital art (including cartoons for the Daily Princetonian).

Shashwat Kumar

General Events Officer | Graduate

Shashwat is a third year PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He works on quantum computing with superconducting qubits in the Houck Lab. He is interested in novel qubit designs and intrinsically error-protected qubits.

Eric Jung

General Events Officer | Undergraduate

Hello, my name is Eric Yale Jung and I am a sophomore in the COS BSE department. I find the hardware and physics of quantum computing very fascinating, but my interests mostly lie in the pseudo-theoretical algorithms and programming/software aspects. I hope to be involved in and pursue the field of quantum computer science in the future.

Athan Zhang

Events Planning Officer | Undergraduate

Athan is a Computer Science major at Princeton with side interests in Quantum Computing and Optimization. His passion for Quantum started in high school, where he was one of six juniors in his Electrodynamics class and completed research using VQAs to identify time-series anomalies in cryptocurrency prices for his senior research project. He’s self driven, being an avid member of the Qiskit community and school.

Yufei Zheng

General Events Officer | Graduate

George Zhou

Founding President | Undergraduate

Areeq Hasan

Founding Vice President | Undergraduate

Alexander Haywood

Founding Social Chair | Undergraduate

Noah Luch

Founding Outreach Director | Undergraduate

Alex Zhang

Founding Secretary | Undergraduate

Lu Esteban

Founding Treasurer | Undergraduate